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Despite Foxconn allegedly asking all employees to sign contracts promising not to kill themselves, another worker has jumped out of a building window. This came hours after Foxconn’s CEO was boasting to press of the fabulous facilities at the factories. More

15 years ago Bill Gates published The Road Ahead , a book in which he laid out his vision for the future of personal computing. The Atlantic took a look at his predictions and how they’re holding up IN THE FUTURE. More

Holding up an iPad while snuggling in bed can become tiring pretty quickly, but there’s a simple solution: Get a cheap TV mount, an iPad case, some epoxy glue, and make your own swivel mount. It’ll even look surprisingly good.

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The Lazy Man’s DIY iPad Swivel Mount [DIY]

There will never be anything quite like the mix tape. For better or worse, it really changed the way people listened to music. So it’s sort of bittersweet to see Sony releasing its final cassette-playing boom box ever.

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Sony Says Goodbye to Cassette Tapes with a Fancy Boom Box [Cassettes]

As if suggesting that we ride our bikes on air wasn’t crazy enough, now some whacky designers want us to dangle from small battery-powered backpacks and let their tiny engines zip us across a network of steel wires. Awesome! More

I can’t be the only one who’s wondered—even stabilized by several screws in metal mounts—how can hard drives sift through so much minuscule data amidst minuscule vibrations? A new study suggests what we’ve long suspected: They can’t.

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Vibration Is Killing Hard Drive Speeds [PCs]

While underwater kites might sound like another one of those crazy concepts we like so much here at Gizmodo, the company behind the design has already attracted €2 million in investors, with testing beginning next year for the next-gen turbines. More

PS3 firmware updates have been in the headlines recently thanks to the OtherOS uninstall , but there was also that attractive 3D gaming business too . It’s not all bad at Sony—unless you don’t own a VAIO laptop, anyway. More

Whatever could Google want with an airline IT company? Well, considering that company, ITA, supplies travel information to websites such as Kayak.com, CheapTickets, Bing Travel and Orbitz, quite a lot, actually. More

Everybody’s talking about Amazon retaliating against the iPad with a multitouch, multimedia, app-heavy Kindle 3 . But it’s not as obvious a move as you think. In fact, it’s a bad idea. More